Comment 21 for bug 270405

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 270405] Re: commit fails, *.pack not found

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Tim <email address hidden> wrote:
>> OK, so please check again if you have a .bzr/repository/upload directory inside the server.
> On any project this occured on, the .bzr/repository/upload directory was missing (locally).
>
>> If not, did someone delete it? Could it be that some antivirus software blocked or deleted it, or someone deleted it to save space?
> * No one deleted it for space issues.
> * I will have to find out how the virus scanner works.
>
> Anyway, may there be an automatic option in bzr to check for existence of the .bzr/repository/upload directory and create it automatically when doing bzr commit/update?
> Or raise a exception with a more helpful message "Please check if .bzr/repository/upload directory is in place, if not create it."
> This would be very helpful.
>
> Thanks for your help so far.

Maybe we should. I'd like to work out why it was missing first. In
general if something or someone else is deleting directories from
inside our repository all bets are off.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>